01-05-1909
Volume OD - Pages 73-97
Reno, Nevada
January 5, 1909
The new Board of Regents met at nine o'clock A.M., Tuesday,
January 5, 1909, in the Regents room at the University. There
were present C. B. Henderson, John Sunderland, Frank Williams,
A. A. Codd and John J. Sullivan.
The Board organized by electing Mr. John Sunderland Chairman.
There were two names for Secretary - Mr. J. E. Gignoux was nom-
inated by J. J. Sullivan, seconded by Frank Williams. Mr. George
H. Taylor was placed in nomination for Secretary by Regent C. B.
Henderson, seconded by A. A. Codd. The vote was taken by ballot.
Mr. Gignoux receiving two votes and Mr. Taylor receiving three
votes, Mr. Taylor was declared elected Secretary of the Board.
The President read his Biennial Report to the Board of Regents
containing his recommendations to the Legislature for appropria-
tions for two years to maintain the University and also relating
to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The
following is the President's report:
December 31, 1908
To the Honorable
the Board of Regents
of the University of Nevada
Reno, Nevada
Gentlemen:
I have the honor to submit herewith my report of the operations
of the University for the two years ending December 31, 1908, and
submitting my recommendations for the two years ending December
31, 1910.
ATTENDANCE
The attendance of students for the semester beginning September
4, 1908 is 177 College students and 115 high school students.
These students are classified as follows:
School of Mines . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 men
School of Liberal Arts . . . . . . . . 6 men 51 women
School of General Science . . . . . . . 10 men 9 women
School of Agriculture . . . . . . . . . 1 man
School of Mechanical Engineering . . . 27 men
School of Civil Engineering . . . . . . 9 men
State Normal School . . . . . . . . . . 20 women
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 men 80 women
University High School . . . . . . . . 43 men 72 women
Grand Total . . . . . . . . . . . .140 men 152 women
The attendance of University students is very good when the pop-
ulation of the State and the progress of the schools of the State
are taken into consideration. Nevertheless, we should have today
250 students in the University alone, and the reason that we have
not this many is due to other causes than the ordinary ones that
usually affect College attendance.
THE UNIVERSITY'S ADVANCE
The time has now come by the progress of the schools of the State
that the University can make her requirements for admission equal
to those of any other University in the West. These requirements
substantially represent a four years' course of High School study
for entrance to the University. This will enable the Academic
Council of the University to distribute the work of the different
Departments in the University in a way that will meet the schol-
arly progress in every Department. Our ambition is, not alone to
make the Mining School of the highest grade, but to make every
Department of the University so good that it will invite the at-
tention and confidence of the people of this and other States.
The University of Nevada is a small University and it will con-
tinue to be a small University as regards the number of students
that take advantage of its opportunities, but the small Univer-
sity has advantages which must not be overlooked and which will
make its name and its degrees respected everywhere.
While the members of the faculty are aiming in the different
Departments to give these advantages, the State must remember
that it has a duty to perform, that it rests under certain re-
sponsibilities to provide the means for making the Departments
of the University such as they would have them to be. There-
fore, my estimate of the expenses for the ensuing two years calls
for a much larger amount than the Legislature has been asked to
appropriate heretofore, and some of the improvements to the
grounds and buildings are as necessary to the life of the stu-
dents and the advancement of the work as are the appropriations
for instruction and administration.
THE REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION
The statistics of the Freshman Class of this year show that the
University of Nevada can advance to a four years' requirement
in September, 1909, as readily as to wait until the beginning of
the Fall term in 1910. For this reason, on the recommendation of
the Academic Council, the President and the Board of Regents have
agreed to the following changes for admission to the Freshman
Class beginning September 1, 1909:
1. Chemistry and Solid Geometry with 2 1/2 units elective will
be added to the entrance requirements for the Engineering
courses.
2. Ten units elective will be added to the requirements of all
other courses except the Normal course.
3. The University High School course will be a four years'
course beginning September 1, 1909.
4. The present University High School students belonging to
the first and second years will be held to this four years'
course.
5. Ten units of History will be required for the Liberal Arts
and General Science courses, as follows: United States His-
tory and Civics, five units; either English or Ancient His-
tory, five units.
6. Beginning with September 1, 1909, the State Normal School
(Elementary course) will take two years instead of one as
heretofore, but the same entrance requirements will, for
the present, continue.
The Committee of Admission and Advanced Standing will make
arrangements so that all High School students who are deficient
in High School Chemistry shall, for next year, have an oppor-
tunity to make this condition up without impairing their stand-
ing as Freshmen in the University.
NEW BUILDINGS AND BETTERMENTS
The following new buildings and improvements are very much need-
ed and the Regents are urged to recommend them to the Legisla-
ture:
1. A Biological building to cost with its equipment $ 35,000.00
2. A Greenhouse to cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 3,000.00
Maintenance of the Greenhouse for two years . . $ 2,000.00
3. Building of a dam across the Valley about 200 feet south
of Hatch Station and parallel to Ninth Street at a cost
of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 5,000.00
4. An addition to Manzanita Hall to cost, with its
furnishings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 25,000.00
5. A Library and Administration building on the present
site of Morrill Hall, costing complete . . . . . $250,000.00
The Library is in urgent need of this new building; in a
year or two the books will overcrowd the present Library.
We have already had to store part of the books which are
less frequently used in another building. The Honorary Board
of Visitors, appreciating the need of a Library building,
have recommended to the Legislature to make an appropriation
for this building. There is no use putting up a building
for any less sum than is here mentioned. Of course this
building is intended to provide not only for the Library
and Offices of the Administration, but also lecture rooms
and seminar rooms for the Departments of History, Latin,
Greek, Modern Languages, English and Law. It is possible
that the Regents will have some hesitation in asking the
Legislature for this amount, every dollar of which is needed.
I have tried to lay this building upon the hearts of a few
friends of the University in the hope that they might see
their way clear to provide this Library and Administration
building. I am not without assurances and hope that someone
will yet honor himself and the State by providing the means
to erect this building. When we remember that the Univer-
sity of California has received a gift of Six or Seven Hun-
dred Thousand dollars to be devoted to a Library building --
that the University of the City of New York received a gift
of Seven Hundred Thousand dollars from Miss Helen Gould for
the purpose of a Library building -- it is perhaps not too
much to expect that some generous friend may be found who
will lift the burden from the Legislature and give the sum
of $250,000 for a Library and Administration building.
6. The Evans Athletic Field was purchased by Mr. Mackay for the
sum of Three Thousand dollars and has been deeded to the Re-
gents of the University of Nevada. We tried to obtain an op-
tion from Mrs. Evans on the land south of the Evans Field to
Ninth Street for the University, but she did not wish to dis-
pose of the land just at present. She expressed her willing-
ness, however, to let the University have a sufficient amount
of land south of the Evans Field where we could place the
tennis and basketball courts, amounting to 4.58 acres at $500
per acre, or a total of . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2,290.00
A blueprint showing this land, for which we wish the Legisla-
ture to make an appropriation for its purchase is now on file
in the Governor's Office.
7. It would be well if the Legislature would appropriate the
sum of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 9,418.70
to pay for the President's House, which is built upon leased
ground, and thus make the University the possessor of this
property which could not now be replaced for less than
$15,000.
8. The Central Heating Plant. The last Legislature appropriated
Twenty Thousand dollars toward establishing the Central Heat-
ing Plant, leaving the present Legislature to appropriate
enough to complete the Plant according to the plans and spec-
ifications now on file in the Regents Office. The bid of
the Nevada Hardware and Supply Company to erect and complete
the entire plant was $56,721. The appropriation of $20,000
was just enough to put in the boiler, pumps, tank for oil,
mains, manholes, and to install radiation in the Chemistry
building, the Mackay building and the President's house.
The Regents were convinced that the heating ought to go in
to Stewart Hall and Hatch Station and, with the consent of
the Governor and the other members of the State Board of
Examiners, they put the radiation in these two buildings at
a cost of $7,050.49. The difference between the amount of
the bid, $56,721.00, to put radiation in all of the build-
ings, and the amount expended, is $29,670.51. Therefore,
the University will need an appropriation, including the
architect's fees, of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 31,000.00
to complete the Heating Plant to all the buildings of the
University.
Furthermore, the bid for the Training Quarters contemplates
heating that building from the Central Plant, making connec-
tion at the manhole just west of the Gymnasium.
ESTIMATES FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF INSTRUCTION
THE MACKAY SCHOOL OF MINES
Salary of the Head Professor of Mining and Geology - $10,000
The Legislature of 1907, through its Committee on University
Affairs, recommended that an additional Professor with the
largest amount of experience be secured to take the Headship
of the Mining School. The Honorary Board of Visitors in
their report of July 3, 1908, says, "We approve the recom-
mendations in the carefully prepared report on the Univer-
sity made by the Committee on State Institutions at the last
session of the Legislature, and we especially recommend that
appropriation be made for salary sufficient to secure a man
of deep scientific learning, practical experience, and high
efficiency, capable of making the Mining School one of the
best, if not the best, in the world." In accordance, there-
fore, with this recommendation of the Honorary Board of
Visitors, I suggest that the Board of Regents ask the Legis-
lature to appropriate $5000 a year for the salary of the Head
Professor of Mining and Geology, who shall keep intimately in
touch with the mining interests of this State. It might be
that the State Legislature should assign the duties of a
State Geologist and State Mining Engineer in addition to the
direction of the work in the University.
DEPARTMENT OF MINING AND METALLURGY
Salary of Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 4,800.00
Salary of Assistant in Mining and Metallurgy . . 1,800.00
Salary of Assistant in State Analytical Work . . 1,500.00
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$ 8,100.00
Runway to Metallurgical Laboratory . . . . . . . $ 50.00
Steam Drying Oven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.00
Laboratory Still . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.00
To Putting in One Rectifier Panel, Ammeter, Volt-
meter and Necessary Storage Batteries . . . . 200.00
Oak Lantern Stand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.00
Additional Equipment for Mining and Metallurgical
Laboratories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800.00
For the Purchase of Technical Books . . . . . . . 750.00
For Floating Stock Laboratory Supplies . . . . . 250.00
For the Purchase of New Periodicals . . . . . . . 50.00
Laboratory Supplies, State Analytical Work . . . 1,200.00
Purchases on Museum Account . . . . . . . . . . . 300.00
Lantern Slides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150.00
Catalog File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.00
Desk and Office Furniture . . . . . . . . . . . . 120.00
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$ 4,070.00
Total $12,170.00
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY
Salary of Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 4,800.00
Salary of Assistant in Museum and in Geology . . 2,600.00
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$ 7,400.00
Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 500.00
Photograph Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200.00
Geological Laboratory Supplies . . . . . . . . . 50.00
Charts, Models and Other Supplies for Lectures . 150.00
Incidentals, such as Stationery, Labor, etc. . . 150.00
Geologisches Centralblatt . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.00
Filing Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.00
Desk for Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.00
Projection Lantern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175.00
Desk Electric Lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00
Electric Motor for Rock Grinding Machines . . . . 125.00
Two Copper Stands and Three Large Iron Grinding
Plates for Making Microscopic Slides . . . . 40.00
Case for Blowpipe Material . . . . . . . . . . . 60.00
Five Lantern Slide Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.00
Wall Case for Chemical Supplies . . . . . . . . . 150.00
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$ 1,760.00
Total $ 9,160.00
A Typical Geological and Mineralogical Collection $ 3,000.00
SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Salaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 7,500.00
Repairs on Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000.00
Steel Lockers for Shops . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200.00
Drafting and Mechanical Engineering . . . . . . . 1,000.00
Shop Supplies and Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500.00
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$12,200.00
SCHOOL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
Salaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 4,800.00
Riehle Testing Machine and Motor Complete . . . . 2,500.00
Instruments and Furniture . . . . . . . . . . . . 500.00
Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500.00
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$ 8,300.00
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
Salary of Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 4,800.00
Books and Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200.00
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$ 5,000.00
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
1. Salary of Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 4,800.00
Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,200.00
Second Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524.00
2. Completion of Remodelling of Building for
University Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300.00
3a. Supplies and Equipment for Courses Now in
Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000.00
b. Lecture Room Equipment, Now Offered . . . . . 1,500.00
4. Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300.00
5. New Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
a. Electrical Measurements, Particularly for
Engineering Students . . . . . . . . . . 2,500.00
b. Elective Courses in General Science . . . 200.00
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$12,324.00
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
Salary of Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 4,800.00
Salary of Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,200.00
Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300.00
Apparatus for Electrolytic Chemistry . . . . . . 225.00
Three Becker Balances and Weights . . . . . . . . 205.00
Repairs to Balances on Hand . . . . . . . . . . . 25.00
Heavy Acids and General Chemical Reagents . . . . 600.00
Glassware and General Chemical Apparatus . . . . 800.00
65 New Bunsen Burners for Freshman Laboratory . . 50.00
Demonstration Apparatus for Laboratory . . . . . 275.00
Laboratory Repairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275.00
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$ 8,755.00
DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, AND OF BOTANY
AND HORTICULTURE
Teaching and Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 6,000.00
DEPARTMENT OF LATIN
Salary of Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 4,800.00
Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,400.00
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$ 6,200.00
DEPARTMENT OF GREEK
Salary of Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 4,800.00
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Salary of Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 4,600.00
Salary of Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,700.00
Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000.00
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$ 7,300.00
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Salary of Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 4,000.00
Books, Maps and Apparatus . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000.00
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$ 6,000.00
DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGE
Salary of Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 4,000.00
Books, Photographs and Table . . . . . . . . . . 500.00
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$ 4,500.00
DEPARTMENT OF DOMESTIC SCIENCE
Salary of Assistant Professor . . . . . . . . . . $ 3,000.00
Books, Equipment and Assistance . . . . . . . . . 500.00
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$ 3,500.00
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY
Salary of Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 4,800.00
Salary of Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,200.00
Anatomical and Physiological Models . . . . . . . 200.00
Additional Microscopes and Accessories . . . . . 400.00
Chemicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.00
Physiological Apparatus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300.00
Botanical Apparatus and Supplies . . . . . . . . 150.00
Books on Zoology, Hygiene, Psychology . . . . . . 250.00
Books on Botany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150.00
Completing Sets of Some Standard Biological
Periodicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.00
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$ 7,650.00
DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY SCIENCE AND TACTICS
Salary of the Commandant . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 900.00
Pay of Commissioned Officers for Two Years . . . 495.00
Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400.00
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$ 1,795.00
NORMAL SCHOOL
Salary of Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2,400.00
Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.00
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$ 2,500.00
DEPARTMENT OF DRAWING
Salary of Assistant Professor . . . . . . . . . . $ 2,400.00
Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200.00
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$ 2,600.00
DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY
Salary of Librarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 4,800.00
Salary of Assistant Librarian . . . . . . . . . . 2,400.00
Reference Books Selected from Kroeger's Guide . . 428.15
Books Currently Requested $10 per Month . . . . . 240.00
Present Periodical List $473.30 x 3 . . . . . . . 1,419.90
Additional for Technical Periodicals . . . . . . 240.00
To Complete 14 Sets of Periodicals . . . . . . . 745.00
Books Suggested, 1907-08 . . . . . . . . . . . . 131.00
Music and Music Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.00
Continuation of Murray's Dictionary . . . . . . . 52.00
Tray Cabinet and Base for Catalog Cards . . . . . 135.00
2 15-Tray Cabinets with Revolving Base for Shelf
List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.00
Catalog Cards and Shelf List Cards . . . . . . . 19.25
U. S. Congressional Library Cards @$5 per Month . 120.00
Binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500.00
Postage and Expressage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180.00
Incidentals @$6 per Month . . . . . . . . . . . . 144.00
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$11,633.30
TRAVELING LIBRARIES
I herewith call the attention of the Regents, and through them,
the Legislature, to a matter of great importance, especially to
the school interests of this State. There is not any one thing
that will do so much toward improving the work of the public
schools as to secure for the schools and the homes which they
represent access to the best books that are published in History,
in Biography, in Science, in Literature, in Poetry, in Fiction.
I heartily support Mr. J. D. Layman, Librarian of the University
of Nevada, in the recommendation that he has made concerning
traveling libraries in this State, and I hope to see it put into
effect within the first 3 months of the year, 1909. Mr. Layman's
plan is briefly this: If the State Library will undertake the
work, for which I understand it has ample funds, it is suggested
by Mr. Layman that necessary legislation be given to enable the
State Library to begin this work at an early date. But if the
State Library does not see its way clear to undertake this work,
the University Library will undertake it, providing the Legisla-
ture will give the University Library $2400 for books and expens-
es and amend Chapter 176, Statutes of 1907, so that the Univer-
sity Library will get 1/2 of any surplus above $5000 remaining in
the State Library Fund, when such fund lapses, for the purpose of
maintaining a State System of traveling libraries. The following
letter is clear and explicit in regard to the plans for providing
traveling libraries for the schools and the people of the State
of Nevada:
President Stubbs,
University of Nevada
Dear Sir:
Referring to the matter of general library interests in the
State of Nevada, which we briefly discussed some days ago, I
wish to gain your cooperation along the following lines:
Let us ask the coming Legislature to encourage public li-
brary growth and the reading of books by placing the duty of
such encouragement upon some group of officers. It has usu-
ally been done by creating a State Public Library Commission
with an annual appropriation for salaries, traveling expens-
es, books and incidentals. In California the State Library
Trustees have charge of this work, and I think the same thing
could be done by the Nevada State Library if its officials
care to undertake the additional duties.
If the State Library does not take this matter up, I hope
you will permit the University Library to take up the work
of providing and circulating traveling libraries, and other-
wise encouraging public library development in the State.
To do this we should have $100 per month for books, clerical
help, cases, fares, postage and expressage, making $2400 for
the two years.
If the Legislature should amend Chapter 176 of Statutes of
1907 so that the last sentence would read: "On the 31st day
of December, 1909, and annually thereafter, the State Treas-
urer shall take from the said Library Fund all monies in
excess of the sum of $5000, if there be any surplus, and
transfer 1/2 of such monies to the University of Nevada Fund
of the State Treasury for maintaining a State System of trav-
eling libraries and otherwise furthering public library in-
terests, and the other half to the General State School Fund
of the State Treasury."
Thanking you for your interest, I am,
Respectfully,
J. D. Layman
Librarian
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL CULTURE
Beginning with September, 1909, we should have two Physical Di-
rectors, one for the young men and one for the young women of
the University. There should be an appropriation for the sala-
ries of these two Directors of $5000.
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
With additional facilities the University should make provision
for instruction in Music and, perhaps, some of the kindred arts.
The Honorary Board of Visitors have recommended that we make
ample provision for the special needs of young women in the Uni-
versity. I recommend to the Regents that they ask the Legisla-
ture to make an initial appropriation to establish this Depart-
ment of $3000.
UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL
Salaries and Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . $20,000.00
RECAPITULATION
DEPARTMENT OF INSTRUCTION
THE MACKAY SCHOOL OF MINES . . . . . . . . . . . $ 10,000.00
DEPARTMENT OF MINING AND METALLURGY . . . . . . . 12,170.00
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY . . . . . . 9,160.00
SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . 12,200.00
SCHOOL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING . . . . . . . . . . . 8,300.00
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000.00
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,324.00
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,755.00
DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY,
BOTANY AND HORTICULTURE . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000.00
DEPARTMENT OF LATIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,200.00
DEPARTMENT OF GREEK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,800.00
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,300.00
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000.00
DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES . . . . . . . . . 4,500.00
DEPARTMENT OF DOMESTIC SCIENCE . . . . . . . . . 3,500.00
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,650.00
DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY SCIENCE & TACTICS . . . . 1,795.00
NORMAL SCHOOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,350.00
POLITICAL ECONOMY AND ADVANCED LAW . . . . . . . 2,500.00
DEPARTMENT OF DRAWING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,600.00
LIBRARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,633.30
DEPARTMENTS OF PHYSICAL CULTURE . . . . . . . . . 5,000.00
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000.00
UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,000.00
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$177,737.30
DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
Water, Gas and Electric Lights . . . . . . . . . $ 3,000.00
Oil for Heating Plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,500.00
Coal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500.00
Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,200.00
Heating Engineer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,800.00
Repairs on Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,500.00
Janitor Work and Student Labor . . . . . . . . . 4,000.00
Tools, Hose, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500.00
Two Gardeners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,500.00
Englarging Pipe Lines, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000.00
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$ 19,500.00
DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION
Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 12,000.00
Expenses of Board of Regents . . . . . . . . . . 2,000.00
Visting Schools of State and Advertising . . . . 1,000.00
President's Expenses of Travel . . . . . . . . . 1,000.00
Insurance of All Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . 4,000.00
Salary of Superintendent of Buildings & Grounds . 3,600.00
Salary of Mistress of Manzanita Hall . . . . . . 1,500.00
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$ 25,100.00
Grand Total $222,337.30
RESOURCES
FROM THE AGRICULTURAL & MECHANICAL COLLEGE FUND
FOR THE TWO YEARS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 75,000.00
FROM THE MACKAY INSTRUCTION FUND . . . . . . . . 12,000.00
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$ 87,000.00
TO BE APPROPRIATED BY THE LEGISLATURE FOR THE
YEARS 1909 AND 1910 . . . . . . . . . . . . . $135,337.30
STUDENT AID
As the University has increased the amount of work that each stu-
dent has to do, there is less and less opportunity for a student
to work his way through the University by his labor upon the
Campus. As a rule the University work is intended to take all
of a student's time excepting that which he gives to exercises
and sleep. Would it not be well for the Regents to ask the
present Legislature to set aside the sum of $5000 for the two
years 1909 and 1910 to be used to help students from the differ-
ent counties in the State who need help and yet cannot get suf-
ficient work to do and at the same time keep up their studies?
If such a sum could be appropriated the young men and young
women applying for aid to the University could have the amount
given them settled by a Faculty Committee on Student Aid.
As soon as possible the University should have a number of per-
manent scholarships to help worthy students.
STATE ANALYTICAL WORK
The labor involved in a free analysis of ores, minerals, soil,
water, etc., is very great and is steadily increasing from year
to year as will be seen by the report of Professor Young, under
whose care the ores and minerals are analyzed and reports made
to the prospectors of the State.
I have no report upon the soil and water but I know it would show
that these samples put quite a tax upon the Chemical Laboratory.
We have estimated the expense of the Analytical Laboratory along
with the expenses under the Head of the Department of Mining and
Metallurgy. The following reports from Professor Young show
the record for the State analytical work from September 1, 1907
to January 1, 1908; and from January 1, 1908 to June 1, 1908:
September 1, 1907 - January 1, 1908
Locality Nbr. of Persons Nbr. of Specimens
Acme 2 2
Amadee, Calif. 1 1
Atwood 5 5
Aurum 3 3
Austin 5 8
Beatty 3 4
Beowawe 1 2
Boise, Idaho 1 1
Caliente 1 1
Carson City 1 2
Carlin 1 1
Churchill 1 1
Clifton 4 4
Coaldale 1 1
Currie 2 2
Currant 1 1
Deep Hole 1 1
Duckwater 2 4
Dutch Creek 3 2
Dutton 1 1
Dyer 2 6
Elko 1 1
Ely 1 1
Eureka 2 3
Fallon 2 2
Gardnerville 5 8
Golconda 4 6
Goldfield 6 7
Goldyke 2 2
Good Springs 1 1
Hawthorne 1 1
Hazen 1 1
Healdsburg 1 1
Indian Springs 1 1
Lakeview 1 34
Las Vegas 1 1
Lander 2 6
Lida 1 2
Los Angeles 1 1
Lovelock 4 6
Luning 2 4
Manhattan 3 4
Madeline 1 1
Mazuma 1 1
Mina 2 2
Mineral Hill 1 2
Mc Dermitt 1 5
Millet 2 6
Milford, Calif. 1 1
Moapa 1 1
Palisade 1 1
Pioche 1 1
Reno 28 53
Rhodes 1 1
Rye Patch 4 6
Sandy 1 1
Schurz 4 7
Seven Troughs 1 1
Skelton 1 2
Silver City 1 1
Springdale 1 1
Sparks 1 1
Tippett 3 5
Tonopah 13 33
Tuscarora 3 6
Vernon 1 1
Verdi 2 3
Virginia City 1 2
Wabuska 2 2
Winnemucca 3 3
Wonder 4 8
Yerington 2 13
Total 72 176 317
Determinations:
Gold and Silver ........... 266 Copper ...................... 15
Iron ...................... 4 Ferrous Oxide and Alumina ... 25
Lime ...................... 14 Magnesia .................... 12
Lead ...................... 8 Sulphur ..................... 2
Fixed Carbon .............. 5 Volatile Carbon ............. 5
Ash ....................... 3 Insoluble Residue ........... 9
Moisture .................. 6 Ignition Loss ............... 5
Antimony .................. 1 Zinc ........................ 4
Organic ................... 2
Total Quantitative Determinations ... 386
Minerals Determined ................. 346
Rocks Determined .................... 70
Total Determinations .............. 802
Estimated Expense:
Labor - four months at $25 ............... $100.00
Materials ................................ 80.00
Correspondence ........................... 10.00
Miscellaneous ............................ 10.00
Total ................................ $200.00
January 1, 1908 - June 1, 1908
Locality Nbr. of Persons Nbr. of Specimens
Armagosa 5 12
Austin 5 7
Battle Mountain 2 2
Beatty 2 4
Berlin 1 1
Bullfrog 2 3
Coaldale 1 1
Crescent 1 1
Cherry Creek 1 1
Coalville 1 1
Copperhill 2 5
Deeth 1 1
Dayton 2 2
Dewey 1 2
Derby 1 1
Delamar 1 3
East Gate 1 2
Eagleville 1 1
Eureka 1 2
Fallon 3 8
Fannell 1 1
Gold Banks 1 1
Gardnerville 4 4
Gold Creek 2 2
Goldyke 1 1
Genoa 1 1
Goldfield 2 3
Hamilton 1 1
Hazen 1 1
Hawthorne 1 9
Hiko 1 1
Hart 1 1
Lovelock 3 7
Lander 1 2
Logan 2 2
Las Vegas 1 2
Manhattan 1 2
Palisade 3 3
Pioche 2 2
Reno 30 69
Rowland 3 5
Romano 2 2
Rawhide 1 1
Redrock 1 1
Stillwater 1 1
Skelton 2 3
Stimler 1 1
Shurz 2 2
Sparks 4 4
Six Mile House 1 1
Seven Troughs 1 26
Sodaville 2 3
Tippett 2 7
Tonopah 2 7
Tuscarora 1 2
Unknown 1 2
Wabuska 1 5
Yerington 2 8
Total 58 125 255
Determinations:
Gold and Silver ........... 258 Chemical .................... 61
Minerals .................. 157 Rock ........................ 68
Silica .................... 6 Ferrous Oxide and Alumina ... 4
Iron ...................... 3 Zinc ........................ 3
Lime ...................... 4 Copper ...................... 13
Lead ...................... 3 Ignition Loss ............... 4
Moisture .................. 5 Volatile .................... 2
Nickel .................... 1 Organic ..................... 4
Sulphur Trioxide .......... 3 Ash ......................... 5
Total Determinations .............. 544
Estimated Expense:
Labor - five months at $25 ............... $125.00
Materials ................................ 54.00
Correspondence ........................... 10.00
Miscellaneous ............................ 10.00
Total ................................ $199.00
SUMMARY FOR YEAR 1907-1908:
Total Expense ............................ $399.20
Total Localities ......................... 130
Total Individuals ........................ 301
Total Samples and Specimens .............. 572
Total Determinations ..................... 1346
SUMMARY FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS:
Year Est. Expense Locs. Indiv. Samp. Spec. Deter.
1907-08 $ 399.20 130 301 572 1346
1906-07 375.42 119 319 619 1526
1905-06 201.45 84 235 444 934
1904-05 235.15 80 158 324 1177
1903-04 144.98 63 142 222 962
Totals $1356.20 476 1163 2181 5945
SCIENCE HALL
This is a building which is very much needed and should be de-
voted to the Department of Biology. We are at present accommo-
dating this Department in inadequate quarters. We are using
part of Hatch Station for the instruction in Biology, which
should, as soon as possible, have a building constructed with
reference to the needs of this Department. Such a building with
equipment will cost at least $35,000.
A GREENHOUSE
We should have a Greenhouse for the joint use of the University
and the Station and costing, fitted up, not in excess of $3000,
with $2000 for two years' maintenance.
THE REPORT OF THE HONORARY BOARD OF VISITORS
This report, prepared with a good deal of care, has been submit-
ted to the Governor, and also to the Board of Regents, and the
President of the University. Passing by the favorable recommen-
dations of this report, I can summarize the principal points
wherein the Board thinks the University can be greatly improved.
They are as follows:
1. An enlargement and improvement of the course in Domestic
Science. In this recommendation we are in thorough accord
and will give it careful attention.
2. The Board has emphasized now for two years the necessity of
giving to the young women of the University all of the advan-
tages which they can receive either from a girls' College or
from a State University. The Board thinks that the curricu-
lum of this University should look to the training of the
young women in those subjects and in those manners which per-
tain to their individual life; that young women graduates
from the University, or young women who have attended the
University for a time, shall have substantial qualities, in-
tellectually, physically and socially, that shall fit them to
take any station or adorn any position that young women are
called upon in life to occupy. The Regents will enlarge the
Department of Arts in accordance with the recommendation and
give opportunities for the study of Music and the study of
Art in addition to the other subjects of our course of study.
To give them that grace and culture that the Committee speaks
of, I think that there should be a teacher, who is more than
a teacher, to the young women who shall direct their educa-
tion in calisthenics and in manners as well as in morals.
3. The recommendation for an advance in the standard of admis-
sion has been adopted.
4. The recommendations of the Board of Visitors with respect
to the Mackay Mining School and the erection of a suitable
Library building are treated of in another place in this
report.
THE CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING
The above Foundation was established a few years since by Mr.
Andrew Carnegie with a gift of $10,000,000. The object of this
Foundation was two-fold; first, to establish a somewhat uniform
standard of admission to Colleges, and, second, to provide re-
tiring allowances for aged and worn out teachers. In the work
under the first head, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching has been investigating the Colleges and Universities
- north, south, east and west - and has found quite a difference
in the standards of admission indeed; especially in the southern
group of Colleges, the standard was quite low. The Foundation
has established a minimum of 15 credits, or 4 years of high
school training for admission to the University or College, but
is allowing a minimum of 12 credits for 2 or 3 years, allowing
the Colleges to advance their standard of requirement for admis-
sion to 15 units.
Under the second head, the Carnegie Foundation has provided from
the interest of this $10,000,000 retiring allowances for aged
and worn out teachers, not as a pension, but as a right after
their long service. Not only does it provide the retiring al-
lowance for the Professor, but it provides 1/2 of the allowance
to the Professor's wife in case of his death. The payment of
this retiring allowance excludes Universities and Colleges whose
Board of Trustees are made up of members of a particular reli-
gious denomination, and they also excluded State Universities
from the benefits of the retiring allowances upon the theory
that the Professors of State Universities would be provided for
in their old age by the Legislatures of their several States.
At the meeting of the National Association of State Universities
held in Washington in November, 1907, the question was very
carefully considered with regard to giving the benefits of the
retiring allowance to State Universities and the decision of
this Association was that there were insuperable difficulties
in the way of the Legislatures providing retiring allowances for
worn out teachers. In January of the present year, I attended
an adjourned meeting of the National Association of State Uni-
versities held in Chicago for the purpose of meeting Mr. Henry
S. Pritchett, President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Ad-
vancement of Teaching, and President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard
University, who is the President of the Board of Trustees of the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
President Pritchett and President Eliot met with the National
Association of State Universities in session during one day and
one evening and they were inclined to think that the State Legis-
latures should provide retiring allowances for their aged and
worn out Professors. The officers and members of the National
Association of State Universities, especially the President,
Charles R. Van Hise, the President of the University of Wiscon-
sin, showed conclusively that we could not expect any assistance
from the State Legislatures for some time to come and proposed
that the benefits of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching be extended to State Universities for a period of 10
years, so as to give the State Universities time to talk the mat-
ter over with their State Legislatures. President Pritchett and
President Eliot took the arguments under advisement and later
reported them in full to Mr. Carnegie. The result was that Mr.
Carnegie gave $5,000,000 additional, the income from which was to
be applied for these retiring allowances to aged or worn out Pro-
fessors, or their wives, connected with State Universities. Mr.
Carnegie made it a condition, however, that the Governor of the
State and the State Legislature should approve their State Uni-
versity receiving the benefits of these retiring allowances.
Briefly the requirements of the Carnegie allowances are these:
65 years is required as the age limit, just as 62 years is re-
quired as the retiring age limit for an Officer in the Army or
Navy. In some cases, however, the age limit may be put at 60
years, but with a little difference in the amount of the re-
tiring allowance. When a Professor retires at the age of 65
years, he enters upon the benefit of his retiring allowance as
a matter of right. He is entitled to $1200 a year plus 1/2 of
the amount exceeding $1200 which he has received as a Professor
during the last 5 years of his Professorship.
RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS
At a meeting of the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada
on December 4, 1908, the following resolution was unanimously
adopted:
RESOLVED, that the Board of Regents of the University of
Nevada appreciate the high purpose of Mr. Andrew Carnegie
in establishing the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching. They see clearly its far-reaching and bene-
ficient results in advancing the dignity of the teacher's
office, in protecting the old age of unselfish public
servants, and in increasing the efficiency and promoting
the standards in American Colleges and Universities.
They therefore desire that the University of Nevada shall
participate in the benefits of the Foundation, and hereby
make application for the admission of the University of
Nevada into all the rights and privileges of the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
/s/ Oscar J. Smith, Chairman
Charles R. Lewers
George H. Taylor John Sunderland
Secretary J. E. Souchereau
Charles B. Henderson
(SEAL) THE BOARD OF REGENTS
THE APPROVAL OF THE GOVERNOR AND OF THE LEGISLATURE OF NEVADA
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching requires
the approval of the Legislature by passing a Senate and Assembly
joint concurrent Resolution that they desire that the University
of Nevada shall participate in the benefits of the Foundation.
This Resolution of the Legislature should be forwarded with the
approval of the Governor, under the seal of the State of Nevada
to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 576
Fifth Avenue, New York City.
RESOLUTION OF THE ACADEMIC COUNCIL
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA
RENO, NEVADA
RESOLVED, that the Academic Council of the University of
Nevada commend the establishment in the State Universities
of an endowment that shall provide the members of the
faculty with an income for that time when, either through
illness or advance in years, active service is no longer
possible. It is the belief of the Academic Council that
such a provision, by substantially adding to the pay and
privileges of the University teacher, will bring to him
not only greater comfort and peace of mind, but greater
possibilities for service. It will enable him to equip
himself more efficientlfy in his work and to center his
energies upon the tasks that should demand all his atten-
tion. The Academic Council recognizes in the system of
retiring-allowances established by the Carnegie Foundation,
through the liberality of Andrew Carnegie, an adequate and
efficient provision. It requests accordingly, that steps
be taken to have the University of Nevada included among
those State Universities whose teachers are recipients of
these allowances.
/s/ Joseph Edward Stubbs, President
Robert Lewers, Vice-President
Maxwell Adams P. Beveridge Kennedy
Romanzo Adams J. D. Layman
Kate Bardenwerper Katherine Lewers
H. P. Boardman W. B. Mack
J. E. Church, Jr. E. Whitney Martin
Thomas W. Cowgill Ralph S. Minor
Laura de Laguna J. G. Scrugham
Sanford C. Dinsmore W. S. Tangier Smith
S. B. Doten Henry Thurtell
Peter Frandsen Gordon H. True
Herbert Wynford Hill Jeanne E. Wier
H. H. Howe George J. Young
Louise M. Sissa
Secretary
THE MACKAY GIFTS
The Mackay School of Mines was finished, furnished and dedicated
on the 10th of June, 1908. It was almost two years in the build-
ing and it costs approximately $110,000.
During a visit to the University made in the latter part of March
1907, Mr. Mackay said that he would give the University $6000 a
year for five years. This makes the sum of $30,000.
After the plans had been drawn for preparing the grounds, he
authorized in November, 1907, the fitting up of the quadrangle
at an expense of about $25,000.
The Athletic Field and Training Quarters: When Mr. Mackay was
here in June he saw that the facilities for athletic sports were
not adequate to the needs of the young men and the young women
and, after conferring with the young men who have had much to
do with athletics, he promised to give them real help toward
getting their grounds in first class order and putting up one
or two buildings which were needed. For this purpose he has
given about $45,000.
THE STATUE OF JOHN WILLIAM MACKAY
This is the joint gift to the State of Nevada and to the Univer-
sity of Nevada.
It stands upon its granite pedestal in front of the imposing
Mackay Mining building, which serves as its background and looks
out over the grass-covered and tree-lined quadrangle. As the
American flags which covered the statue were dropped, revealing
this statue in all of its beauty and simplicity, Mr. Clarence H.
Mackay, addressing the Governor of the State, spoke as follows:
On behalf of my mother and myself, I wish to express to
you as the chief executive of this State of Nevada sincere
appreciation of the honor conferred upon us and the courte-
sies extended to us. The designation of this day as a State
holiday and of my mother, my wife, my friends and myself as
the guest of a great Commonwealth is a distinction of which
anyone might well be proud. But even more highly do I prize
the privilege accorded us. When we heard of the proposal
before the Legislature to erect a statue of my father as a
type of the hardy pioneers who began to develop the State,
both my mother and myself felt an instinctive pride which
might, I think, be considered pardonable. But we could not
but feel also that there should be linked with this public
recognition our own loving, personal tribute. Hence our
request that we be permitted to make this presentation to
the State to which my father owed the beginning of his
career and the foundation of his fortune and to which we
are also greatly indebted. For the granting of that
privilege, Sir, I return our heartfelt thanks. Surely
no better place for this statue could be found than on
this splendid Campus, with the background which you behold.
Your Excellency, I have the honor of presenting to the
State and the University of Nevada this representation in
bronze of John William Mackay, the miner and pioneer, his
hand upon the pick and his eyes turned towards Virginia
City, the scene of his struggles, his early manhood life,
his hopes, his fears, his first great success.
At its conclusion, Governor Denver S. Dickerson accepted the
statue on behalf of the State in well chosen words and paid a
graceful tribute to the memory of John William Mackay. He was
followed by Oscar J. Smith, Chairman of the Board of Regents,
who accepted the statue on behalf of the University. Then
there were brief tributes paid by Senator Francis G. Newlands
and Honorable Sam P. Davis.
The last Legislature passed a joint concurrent Resolution which
shows the esteem and recognition of these valuable gifts by the
people of the State:
WHEREAS, Clarence H. Mackay and and wife of the City of New
York and Mrs. John W. Mackay of London, England, have gen-
erously donated to the State of Nevada a new building for
the School of Mines of the University of Nevada, accompan-
ied by a life-sized bronze statue of the late John W. Mackay,
who in his lifetime was one of Nevada's most distinguished
citizens, a man of tireless energy, generous heart, and
honest life; THEREFORE BE IT
RESOLVED by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, that the
thanks of the people of the State of Nevada are hereby
extended to Clarence H. Mackay and wife and Mrs. John W.
Mackay, for their noble gift to the cause of educating the
young men of Nevada in the science of Mining, the State's
paramount industry; BE IT FURTHER
RESOLVED, that in the selection of Gutzon Borglum, the most
distinguished sculptor of America, for the performance of
the work, they have paid a deserved tribute to a native son
of the Sagebrush State; BE IT FURTHER
RESOLVED, that the day on which the cornerstone of the School
of Mines is laid and on the day the statue is unveiled be
declared a public holiday, and that Clarence H. Mackay,
family and friends be declared the guests of the State; and
BE IT FURTHER
RESOLVED, that the acceptance of the statue by the Governor
be endorsed by the Legislature.
DEDICATION OF THE MACKAY SCHOOL OF MINES
Then followed the dedication of the Mackay School of Mines. In
presenting the building Mr. Clarence H. Mackay spoke as follows:
Mr. Chairman of the Board of Regents
and President Stubbs:
It was the intention of my father during his lifetime to
put in some permanent and useful form an indication of his
appreciation of what Nevada had done for him. Whatever
credit may be properly due for the erection of this build-
ing belongs to him. My mother and myself have only tried
as best we could to carry out his expressed desire. In our
endeavor to that end, we felt that whatever we did should
be constructive and helpful, and we could think of no token
more certain to serve that purpose than a School of Mines
which should afford to young men facilities to acquire train-
ing and education not accessible to the youthful miners of
my father's time. On behalf of my mother and myself, in
loving memory of my father, I dedicate the Mackay School of
Mines in the hope that it will facilitate the development of
Mining Engineering in this great region of mineral treasure
and that its inauguration may mark the dawn of a new era in
the history of this University, in whose interest you, Mr.
President, and your associates have labored so long and so
faithfully as to richly deserve the great success which, I
firmly believe, you are bound to achieve.
In reply, Mr. Smith, Chairman of the Board of Regents, accepted
the building in behalf of the Regents and the University. Mr.
H. F. Norcross followed with an address in behalf of the Alumni
of the University and Professor George J. Young, Professor of
Mining and Metallurgy in the University, spoke also of the great
value to the young men of Nevada which this building would prove
in the future.
VISIT OF THE MACKAY PARTY
The Mackay party consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay
and Mr. George Harvey of New York, and the Reverence Charles A.
Ramm of San Francisco. They arrived on Number One Saturday
morning, June 6th, and Mr. and Mrs. Mackay and Colonel Harvey
left for New York on Wednesday evening, June 10th. They entered
very heartily into all the exercises and festivities of Commence-
ment Week.
Sunday morning, June 7th, Reverend Charles A. Ramm delivered a
thoughtful and impressive discourse before a very large assembly
in the Gymnasium.
The Commencement Address was delivered by Colonel George Harvey
and was a forceful and illuminating address upon the value of
individual incentive in life as illustrated by the character and
career of John William Mackay.
Every great institution has an ideal toward which it sets its
aspirations and purposes from year to year and from century
to century. Likewise this University cherishes its ideal. To
help this University and to cooperative with it is the declared
purpose of Mr. and Mrs. Mackay and his mother. There are many
Universities in the country that have a right to rejoice in the
steady support and help of friends who have given of their
wealth, now to put up a building, now to establish a professor-
ship, and now to establish scholarships for students. The
University of California has among its benefactors Mrs. Phoebe
Hearst. Stanford University enjoys all of the wealth left to
it by the late Senator and Mrs. Stanford. Harvard University
has so many gifts and givers that it is impossible to enumerate
them and the aggregate amount reaches millions. The University
of Nevada, with the appropriations from the State and from the
National Government and the gifts of friends which enlarge its
facilities and strengthen its work, seeks to create an atmos-
phere for education in this State similar to that of the smaller
Colleges of the East, such as Amherst, Bowdoin and Williams.
THE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION SCHOOL AT SPARKS
The University of Nevada has been on the alert to extend its edu-
cational advantages even beyond the University proper and to
that end it has sought in various ways to extend the work of
some of its Departments. Some years ago it conducted a Mining
School at Virginia City in the interests of the miners, and
while, from the loss of population, the School dwindled to a few
persons, nevertheless, the School has been maintained through
the kindness of the Legislature ever since. For the past two
years the Mechanical Department of the University has maintained
an Extension School at Sparks and the following report from Pro-
fessor James G. Scrugham, Head of the School of Mechanical Engi-
neering, indicates that it is doing good and indispensable work
with an attendance of 40 to 50 pupils:
The Sparks Extension School was reopened on Tuesday evening,
September 15, 1909, under the direction of the Mechanical
Department. Courses are given in Arithmetic, Mechanical
Drawing and Elementary Electricity. Classes are held on
Tuesday and Thursday evenings. 41 machinists, helpers and
apprentices are in attendance. The School has the support
of the Machinists' Union. The Southern Pacific Company
furnishes the building, heat, lights, and janitor service
for the School and have recently granted as compensation of
$200 yearly for two instructors. While the difficulties of
conducting a School of this character have not been entirely
overcome, I believe the results have more than justified
the time and effort devoted it it.
THE UNIVERSITY AND THE CITY OF RENO
There is no doubt that the University of Nevada and the City of
Reno are under reciprocal obligations to each other and we cannot
consider the importance of the one without also considering the
interests of the other.
In 1886 the cities of Reno and Carson entered into a contest for
the removal of the University from Elko to the western part of
the State. This contest was settled in the Legislature in favor
of Reno by a very narrow majority, by Reno agreeing to make cer-
tain financial arrangements to repay Elko, and to secure a suit-
able site in the City of Reno. When the citizens of this town
made so much effort to remove the University to Reno they pledged
themselves to care for and to foster the growth of this, the
highest institution of learning in this State and the Head of
its common school system.
Since that time the University and the City of Reno have under-
gone great changes. The University has made rapid progress in
the field of scholarship and in the field of influence through-
out the State. It has all of the Departments of a State Univer-
sity well maintained and doing first class work. It has made
notable improvements upon its Campus within the past three years.
It has advanced the standard of admission and advanced the stand-
ard of scholarship qualifications also within the past five
years. The number of good high schools in the State organized
and now being organized affords the finest promise for the future
of the University.
The University of Nevada put into the channels of local trade for
the year ending June 30, 1908, the following amounts:
1. From the Agricultural and Mechanical
College Fund ................................. $ 30,000
2. From the Hatch and Adams Funds ............... 24,000
3. From the State Appropriation ................. 65,000
4. From Fees and Other Student Expenses ......... 6,000
5. From Mr. Mackay's Gifts ...................... 125,000
6. From Student Expenditures .................... 62,500
This gives a total of $312,500 which has been spent directly by
the University to the contractors, tradesmen and laborers of
the town of Reno.
Now I ask in a spirit of fairness and justice if the people of
Reno are not under particular obligations to support the Uni-
versity by making a thoroughly moral community in which the
ideals of common life are held up before the young people?
Have they not obligated themselves to make the town a source
of protection and help to the students who seek a good educa-
tion in the University of Nevada? I do not think that there
are two sides to the question at all. While our attendance is
pretty good for the first term of this year, we cannot expect
it to be any better as long as the present social conditions
are maintained and maintained by the will of the people.
The following propositions are and can always be maintained by
sound reasoning and social sentiment:
1. Gambling is an economic evil that cannot be justified by any
argument whatever.
2. Gambling is a social evil bringing death, or dishonor, or
suffering in its train.
3. Gambling has been driven from every State in the Union ex-
cepting the State of Nevada.
4. Gambling is opposed by the legitimate saloon interests of
the country.
There have been various utterances from men claiming to repre-
sent the interests and the business of brewers and the liquor
dealers the country over, and, almost without exception, these
men say that the legitimate saloon interest is opposed to gam-
bling and to vice of every kind and that they will do all they
can to eradicate this evil.
The following is taken from an address by a gentleman who is the
President of an organization composed of distillers, brewers,
wine-makers, wholesalers and retailers in liquors. He says,
"The edict has gone forth that saloons must obey the law; that
they must not sell to intoxicated men, nor to habitual drunk-
ards, nor to minors; that they must not exhibit improper pic-
tures, nor connect themselves with gambling resorts; in a word,
that the saloons must not be a nuisance."
Remember that these words are spoken by a man of prominence who
belives in the saloon, but not in the saloon connected with
gambling or vice of any sort.
The University and the University faculty maintain that this
community is under the highest obligations to remove everything
within the City that is inimical to the growth and improvement
of the University that can be shown at the same time as an evil
and not a good; that should not be recognized as a lawful busi-
ness and the influence of which tends to keep students from the
University and good people from settling in this City. The Uni-
versity is here; it will have to remain here; it is spending
hundreds of thousands of dollars every year to maintain its plant
and to encourage its progress. The University came here under
the implied agreement on the part of the City that it would do
all that it could to foster and promote the interests of the
University. No consideration - political, financial, social or
economic - should be permitted to stand in the way of the high-
est progress of this University and this fair City.
Respectfully submitted,
Joseph Edward Stubbs
President
The Regents submitted the following copy of their Biennial
Report:
OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA
Reno, Nevada December 31, 1908
To His Excellency,
Denver S. Dickerson,
Lieutenant and Acting Governor of the
State of Nevada
Sir:
The Board of Regents of the University of Nevada, in compliance
with the Law, submits this report for the two years ending Decem-
ber 31, 1908. For a detailed account of the general physical,
financial and scholastic conditions prevailing at his Institu-
tion and the recommendations for needed support for the two years
ending December 31, 1910, and the financial tables, you are re-
ferred to the report of the President herewith.
Within the past two years the University has made rapid material
improvement in the way of buildings and equipment and has also
made corresponding gains in the Department of Instruction. On
June 10th of this year Mr. Clarence H. Mackay and his mother
presented for acceptance and dedication the statue of John W.
Mackay and the Mackay Mining building. We think that there is
no institution in the United States that surpasses the Mackay
Mining building in gracefulness of architecture and in its a-
daption to the needs of the School of Mines and Metallurgy, Ge-
ology and Mineralogy. With the fitting up of the quadrangle
in front of his building with a lawn, brick walks and trees,
this portion of the Campus has set a standard for beauty and
utility which this State and this University can never fall
below. We desire to call your attention to the plan of this
quadrangle herewith published and the site of the proposed Li-
brary and Administration building.
ADMINISTRATION OF UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS
For the first time in the history of the University it has put up
a building and arranged its grounds so that they add very greatly
to the beauty and attractiveness of the Campus. It is the duty
of those who have the care of the University to make the grounds
a beautiful setting for the buildings both old and new and, now
that the University has got a start in this direction, it rests
with us and with the State Legislature to continue the good work
which has been begun by Mr. Mackay and his mother.
PROGRESS
With the beginning of the year 1909 this University will take
advanced steps with regard to its entrance requirements equal to
any College or University in the West. It will require 16 units
of work for admission to any of its Departments. The School
interests of this State are going forward very rapidly. The
number of the High Schools in the State is being multiplied and
within five years we shall see great educational progress made
in Nevada. The University must not only keep up with this
progress but must keep in advance of it and to this end we be-
speak from the Legislature the approval of all the recommenda-
tions for appropriations made by the President. The Regents
of the University cordially recommend all of these appropria-
tions as being the least that the University can get away with.
APPROPRIATIONS RECOMMENDED
Department of Instruction .................... $177,737.30
Department of Buildings and Grounds .......... 19,500.00
Department of Administration ................. 25,100.00
Completion of Central Heating Plant .......... 31,000.00
Greenhouse and Maintenance ................... 5,000.00
Building Dam Across the Valley Below Hatch ... 5,000.00
Total ............... $263,337.30
Resources from the Agricultural and
Mechanical College Fund for Two Years .... $ 75,000.00
Mackay Instruction Fund ...................... 12,000.00
Total ............... $ 87,000.00
Amount to be Appropriated by the Legislature
for the Years 1909 and 1910 ............. $176,337.50
BUILDINGS
Biological Building & Equipment .............. $ 35,000.00
Addition to Manzanita Hall & Furnishings ..... 25,000.00
President's House ............................ 9,418.75
Library and Administration Building on Present
Site of Morrill Hall ..................... 250,000.00
Total ............... $319,418.70
PURCHASE OF LAND
Mr. Mackay gave $3000 with which to purchase what was known as
the Evans Athletic Field. This land was not sufficient to pro-
vide room for the running track, the tennis and out-door basket
ball courts, and, therefore, we ask the Legislature to purchase
4.58 acres of land of Mrs. Evans on the south side of the Evans
Field for the sum of ............................. $ 2,290.00
GRANDSTAND AND TRAINING QUARTERS
Mr. Mackay has agreed to give us for the benefit of the student
athletics the sum of $45,000 to be spent upon the football and
baseball field, the track, and the building of a first class
Training Quarters, Grandstand and Colonnade. We expect to have
this done and ready for dedication by Commencement time.
CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching now pro-
vides for all Professors who have reached the age of 65 years,
or by reason of ill health must retire at an earlier period that
such persons shall receive a retiring allowance of not less than
$800 per year. The purpose of these retiring allowances is to
provide a comfortable income when Professors have passed the
limit of active service, and, further, on the side of the Uni-
versities and Colleges, it enables good men to keep their posi-
tions in a University at the small salary which most Univer-
sities pay, because they are sure that they are provided for
in their old age. Not only so, but the wife who survives her
husband is entitled to receive 1/2 of the retiring allowance
given her husband in his lifetime. The Carnegie Foundation
required that the University must have the approval of the
State Legislature and of the Governor before it is enrolled on
the list of the Universities entitled to the benefits of its
retiring allowances. We presume that every State University will
receive the sanction of the State Legislatures and of its Gover-
nor during the present Winter and will be enrolled as an insti-
tution entitled to the benefits of the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching.
SOCIAL CONDITIONS
The Regents feel that the City of Reno especially owes a con-
stantly increasing duty to the University and that it ought by
every means in its power to make of this City a highly moral and
intellectual community, such as will attract people to come here
to educate their children and to create further an atmosphere of
University life such as will attract young people and such as
will give parents confidence in sending their young people to
the University of Nevada. The City may not now feel its respon-
sibility, but it ought to.
Until such time as Reno reaches the high moral plane for which
its best citizens are striving, we desire to assure the people
of the whole State that a careful oversight is kept upon all our
students by the faculty and that our students are as safe in
all respects as though they were attending schools in their home
towns. The faculty keeps a close personal touch with the stu-
dents at all times and thus brings to bear an influence for good
that is impossible in the larger Universities.
We recommend that the Legislature take the necessary action to
have the Constitution of our State changed so that the Regents
may be appointed by the Governor, instead of being elected as
the Constitution now provides (Constitution of Nevada, Art. XI,
Sec. 7). The terms of Office and qualifications of the Regents
to be left to the Legislature, except that the Constitution as
changed should provide that not more than 3/5 of the Board of
Regents shall be of the same political faith as that of the
Governor making appointments.
There are many reasons for the change. Chief among these it
might be argued that the University should be kept out of poli-
tics to the greatest possible extent, and, that it is hardly
fair to ask men to run for an office on the State ticket in a
State the size of Nevada, where the office pays no salary and
carries no emoluments.
Respectfully submitted,
/s/ (All the Members of the Board
of Regents)
The hour of 10 o'clock having arrived, the Chairman of the Board
of Regents requested the Secretary to read the proposal for bids
for the Training Quarters, Grandstand and Colonnade on the Mackay
Athletic Field as follows:
Bids will be received for building the Training Quarters upon
the east side of the Mackay Athletic Field and the Grandstand
and Colonnade on the west side of the Mackay Field by the Re-
gents of the University of Nevada according to the plans and
specifications for these two structures now on file in the
Regents Office.
These bids will be opened at 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning,
January 5, 1909, in the Regents' room at the University of
Nevada. The bids may be filed in the Regents Office any
time prior to the date of opening and awarding the contracts.
The contractors must bid upon the Training Quarters and upon
the Grandstand and Colonnade separately and they will be ex-
pected to file with their bids a certified check for $500 as
evidence of their good faith.
The Training Quarters and the Grandstand and Colonnade are
the gifts of Mr. Clarence H. Mackay to the University of
Nevada and contractors are expected to give strict attention
to the plans and specifications requiring first-class work
to be done.
If practicable, the Regents of the University want these
buildings completed by the first of May, 1909.
The Regents reserve the right to reject any or all bids.
Oscar J. Smith
Chairman, Board of Regents
University of Nevada
P. Beveridge Kennedy
Chairman Mackay Athletic Field
Fund
The Chairman then instructed the Secretary of the Board to open
and read the bids, which are as follows:
1. GRANDSTAND AND COLONNADE BUILDINGS
Clock and Shea, Reno, Nevada ................... $ 9,700
Charles Kline, Goldfield, Nevada ............... 9,407
Northwestern Construction Company .............. 9,543
Add for painting of same ................... 185
Add for shingle roof of same ............... 150
Jensen and Mortensen, Reno, Nevada ............. 7,925
A. F. Niedt .................................... 9,450
W. H. Blalock .................................. 8,175
2. TRAINING QUARTERS BUILDING
Clock and Shea, Reno, Nevada ................... $19,487
Charles Kline, Goldfield, Nevada ............... 24,152
Northwestern Construction Company, Reno, Nevada. 22,800
Stockholm and Allyn, San Francisco, California
for both buildings ......................... 39,100
Walter Wilkie Construction Company, San
Francisco, California, both buildings ...... 28,945
Ransome Construction Company, San Francisco,
California, both buildings ................. 33,500
C. A. Holden, Los Angeles, California,
both buildings complete .................... 43,056
On motion of Regent Henderson, seconded by Regent Codd, the com-
bined bid of Clock and Shea for building the Training Quarters
and the Grandstand and Colonnade for $28,452 was accepted and
approved.
In this bid the roof of the Training Quarters was changed from
shingle to tin; the basement floor is to be of cement; and the
lugs on the Grandstand are to be of iron instead of wood. It
was understood and agreed that the work on the Grandstand was
to be done by Mr. W. H. Blalock, whose bid was $8175.
Mr. Fairweather, the representative of Bliss and Faville, took
all the information with him to San Francisco for the purpose
of executing a contract with Clock and Shea with a good and
sufficient bond of $3000.
On motion of Regent Codd, seconded by Regent Sullivan, the
Secretary of the Board was instructed to place $10,000 insurance
on the furniture and equipment of the Mackay Mining building with
Welsh and Chadwick of Goldfield, the insurance to take effect
from this date.
On motion the Board of Regents adjourned to meet in their Office
at the University at 9 o'clock A.M., January 30, 1909.
John Sunderland
Chairman
Geo. H. Taylor
Secretary